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Moderator's Memos

Here is a collection of our Moderator's Memos - emails from the church's lay leadership to the congregation - updating us all on church activities, goals and achievements.


From Our Moderator

January 22, 2021

As he completes his term as Moderator, David Grimsted concludes his exploration of the Puritans: their history and their ideas about God. 

Of Plymouth Plantation

Plymouth Colony was both a part of and apart from early new England Puritanism. Its leaders were all Separatist-Congregationalists. Yet it strongly supported freedom of religion, with respect and aid for all groups and even for the “respectable” with little or no religion.

William Bradford, who led the colony for most of its first 26 years,

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From Our Moderator

January 8, 2021

Jonathan Edwards: Puritan First and Last

This year’s Moderator, David Grimsted, continues his exploration of the Puritans: their history and their ideas about God. 

The colonial world that became the United States had no more impressive figure than Jonathan Edwards. His dark vision of a justly wrathful God loving His chosen few and rightly damning most humans was the traditional church view, unsoftened by the idea’s early covenanted and communal boundaries. Edwards emphasized the religious ecstasy of those who found

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From Our Moderator

December 18, 2020

This year’s Moderator, David Grimsted, continues his exploration of the Puritans: their history and their ideas about God. 

Jonathan Edwards’ Puritan Revival

A student of mine, after reading Edwards’ sermon, Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God (1741), told the class, “This guy’s really good at scaring the hell out of people.” Edwards was, for a while. Yet this sermon little reflects traditional Puritan pulpit oratory, nor that of Edwards.
 
Given over a century after the religious settling

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From Our Moderator

December 3, 2020

This year’s Moderator, David Grimsted, continues his exploration of the Puritans: their history and their ideas about God. 

John Wise’s Democratic Political Theory

When early Puritan minister and theologian John Cotton was asked to comment on democracy, he brushed it off, “If all rule, who will be ruled?” Yet the Massachusetts church system that Cotton labeled Congregationalism let individual churches be ruled, personally and theologically, by their members. They could hire and depose ministers, theoretically determine doctrine, and early question

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From Our Moderator

November 6, 2020

This year’s Moderator, David Grimsted, continues his exploration of the Puritans: their history and their ideas about God.

Shifting Eternal Truths

Churches often pretend to offer eternal truths; believers tend to think they find them in their faiths. Yet dogmas have to float within the changing currents of their times, often a bit more slowly in churches than elsewhere.

Puritans remained strong defenders of core Christian doctrines, with salvation coming from intense rational-emotive seeking within autonomous Congregational judgement. The core

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UCC- Open and Affirming

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Restoring God’s Justice

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Former Moderators and Pastors

Former Moderators
A Timeline of our Previous Pastors

Cleveland Park Congregational United Church of Christ

An Open and Affirming Congregation

3400 Lowell St NW
Washington, DC 20016
(202) 363-8211
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13
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9:30 am Book Club
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Tai Chi (Side Yard) – Cleveland-...
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14
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8:00 am Morning Meditation with Pastor E...
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